NSERC CREATE: Biodiversity, ecosystem services, and sustainability

NSERC CREATE：生物多样性、生态系统服务和可持续性

• 批准号: 466283-2015
• 负责人: Hendry, Andrew
• 金额: $ 21.86万
• 依托单位: McGill University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Training Experience
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=694784
• 关键词: NSERC; CREATE; Biodiversity; ecosystem; services

Environmental change is occurring at an unprecedented rate, raising concerns about the conservation of biodiversity (B), the maintenance of ecosystem services (ES), and the future of sustainability (S) - BESS. These concerns are especially pressing in tropical environments, where most of the world's biodiversity and humans reside and interact - and where natural resource extraction by Canadian companies is now very common. BESS will provide a multidisciplinary and immersive training experience that prepares the next generation of environmental scientists working with industry, environmental consulting firms, governments, NGOs, and universities. Skills that BESS training will impart include environmental monitoring, biodiversity surveying (especially with emerging technologies such as genomics and remote sensing), ecological impact assessment, mitigation strategies, the design of restoration projects, statistical analysis, adaptive forest and agricultural management, and mathematical modeling for predictive and prescriptive planning. The multidisciplinary aspect of BESS will be achieved through cooperation of a diverse group of co-applicants and collaborators who will administer and supervise complementary courses, an internship rotation, and thesis research. The immersive aspect of BESS will be achieved through these activities taking place on the ground in Panama. This immersion is the most critical and unique component of BESS: training occurs in situ where environmental problems are particularly complex and pressing, and where many Canadian natural resource extraction and environmental companies are invested. These core aspects of BESS will be implemented through a partnership between Quebec universities, Canadian companies working in Panama, and several Panamanian institutions, particularly the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. BESS graduates will substantially improve environmental knowledge for a broad range of Canadian interests in Latin America, the tropics, and in Canada itself.

环境变化正以前所未有的速度发生，引发了人们对生物多样性保护 (B)、生态系统服务维护 (ES) 以及可持续性未来 (S) - BESS 的担忧。这些担忧在热带环境中尤其紧迫，世界上大多数生物多样性和人类都居住在热带环境中并相互作用，而且加拿大公司开采自然资源的情况现在非常普遍。 BESS 将提供多学科和沉浸式培训体验，为与行业、环境咨询公司、政府、非政府组织和大学合作的下一代环境科学家做好准备。 BESS 培训将传授的技能包括环境监测、生物多样性调查（特别是基因组学和遥感等新兴技术）、生态影响评估、缓解策略、恢复项目设计、统计分析、适应性森林和农业管理以及预测性和规范性规划的数学建模。 BESS 的多学科方面将通过不同的共同申请人和合作者群体的合作来实现，他们将管理和监督补充课程、实习轮换和论文研究。 BESS 的沉浸式体验将通过在巴拿马举办的这些活动来实现。这种沉浸感是 BESS 最关键和最独特的组成部分：培训发生在环境问题特别复杂和紧迫的地方，也是许多加拿大自然资源开采和环境公司投资的地方。 BESS 的这些核心方面将通过魁北克大学、在巴拿马工作的加拿大公司以及多个巴拿马机构（特别是史密森尼热带研究所）之间的合作伙伴关系来实施。 BESS 毕业生将大大提高加拿大在拉丁美洲、热带地区和加拿大本身的广泛兴趣的环境知识。